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Visiting your marines on Liberty sunday and graduation.

I am with both of you Donna's as it is hard not to go but it is a 12 hour drive for us as well and it's my understanding they are put on a but as soon as graduation is over, but my mama mode jumps in and still wants to be there! I think it will be best to wait for MOS and visit....Actually if my son gets to go where he should go I will only be about 50 miles from him!

I read somewhere that suggested if you were over a 5 hour drive it was worth waiting to see them at MOS. I need to get more information which of course is hard to get from my son, but until we know what if any leave he will have for Thanksgiving we arent making plans to travel to NC. If his MOS is where we think it will be he will be an 8hr car ride away so that would be do-able for week end visits.I hope to hear from him this weekend.

i did not go to my sons MCT grad a yr ago, and was soooo glad i didn't! LOL as it turned out, it would have been an 8 hr drive to mct fam day and grad, i would have had an 8 hr drive back home, then turn around and drive 5 hrs in the opposite direction to pick him up from MOS to bring him home for thanksgiving 96 on wed evening and a 5 hr drive back home with him, and a 5 hr drive to drop him back off at MOS on sunday evening and a 5 hr drive home again. it was worth the wait in order to bring him home for those 96 hours! that said, until we did not know ahead of time whether he would even be able to come home, he texted as often as he could as he got info on wed, between meetings, orientation etc. and his command happened to be the only command at his MOS school that waited to start INDOC after the 96 so those Marines could go home..it was NOT the norm for his particular school!

Does anyone have an idea if graduation is on Liberty Sunday? Im driving up to see my boyfriend but is it for graduation or just visitation on sunday. Also is their some type of form i need to fill out to visit?

Here are a couple of Marine sites with information. It appears that Sunday is a visitation day and Monday afternoon is graduation.

My son graduated 8 years ago, but from the info, much is still the same. There ae varying times available after graduation to see your Marine. He may board a bus immediately after graduation, (ours did) or have a couple of hours. He will have much to do to get ready to depart but you can help, some.

My personal thought is that we all get spoiled by how well the boot camp graduations are planned for us. You should realize that no other event is planned that way. Promotions and re-enlistments are normal everyday events, sometimes a little more. My son is now on a tank and his re-enlistment was staged standing on his tank. MCT has changed some since our son was there. I think it caters to families/friends more than it used to. We live 1000 miles away and did not attend, our son said to not waste effort. However he did go to the air wing and to Pensacola and we visited him there and that was very nice.